Improvement in cooking-stoves



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Patmed May 4,1875.

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UNITED STATEs' PATENT QEErcE.

EMORY H. BATES, OF WASHINGTON, D. O., ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO NORVAL E. BATES, OF SAME PLAGE. i

IMPROVEMENT IN COOKING-STONES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,883, dated May 4, 1875; application filed March -10, 1875.

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, EMORY H. BATES, of Washington, in the county of Washington, District of Columbia, have invented anew and valuable Improvement in Cookin g-Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure l of the drawings is a representation of a vertical perspective sectional view of my stove. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view, of the improved slide. Figs. 3 and 4 are detail views. Figs. 5 and 6 are vertical sectional views.

This invention has relation to cook stoves and ranges; and it consists in the employment of a hollowT nue partition in combination with front, back, bottom, and top fines, and with valves suitably arranged for obtaining a direct draft, an indirect draft through the front, bottom, and back tlues, or a draft through said hollow partition, as will be hereinafter explained.

My object is mainly to make a partition which forms two ovens in the stove, afford a broad sheet iiue for the purpose of more uniformly distributing heat in the ovens, andutilizing fuel.

The body of the stove is composed of four double walls forming four flues, a. b c d, with a fire-chamber, A, at the 'upper part of the front wall, and a smoke-pipe, l5, at the upper part of the back wall. The said four walls inclose a large space, forming an oven, as shown in Fig. 6, which ovenl is provided with doors U, and can be ventilated by opening a valve, c, and allowing the odors arising from cooking to escape into the nue b, and from 'thence into the smoke-pipe B. Directly opposite the passage c1, which is provided with a valve, c, and in a horizontal plane therewith, is a passage, c2, provided witha valve, f. The passage c2 is made through the inner plate of the front double wall. Above and below the passages c1 c2, and in close relation thereto, are lianges g g, which form channels for receiving the open ends of a horizontal sheet ue, D, which iiue, when in place, separates the large oven (shown in Fig. 6) into Y twosmall ovens, (shown in Fig. 1,) and affords valve, h, and near the rear end of the top flue c is a valve, i.

The operation is as follows: Vhen the flueshelf D is removed, and the valves are adjusted as shown in Fig. 6, all the heated products will pass through the front, bottom, and back dues; and, if desired, by adjusting the direct outlet-valve t', part of the heated products may be conducted over the top of the oven, as indicated by the dotted arrow in Fig. 6.

NVhen the shelf D is in its place, and the valves are arranged as shown in Fig. l, the heated products will pass from the fire-chamber Vhalf-way down the front ilue d; thence through the shelf D, and up through the back iiue.

If valve h be opened, and valve i shut, the products of combustion will descend to the llower end of the front flue; thence pass to the back flue, and pass up the back iiue, and finally escape out the pipe B.

It will thus be seen that meats may be roast-ed in one oven, while baking can be conducted in the other oven; also, that the upper oven can be used for cooking, and the lower oven be heated only sufficiently to serve as a warming-closet.

I claiml. The combination, with the oven-wall, having the openings of the hollow sliding due-shelf D, and the devices for closing the joints, of the shelf with the oven-wall, both above and below, substantially as described.

2. ln a stove having fines a b c d, the removable hollow ue-shelf D and the valves c f h t', all combined and arranged substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

EMORY H. BATES.

Witnesses:

EUGENE W. J oHNsoN, ROBERT EvEnETT. 

